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Greg Miller and Julie Tate have a remarkable story in the Washington Post this morning (and if my local paper the Austin American-Statesman is any indicator, also on the front page of a whole lot of othe...
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Tim Mak at the Politico covers in more depth the developing story surrounding court documents from an aviation dispute in Hudson, NY that detail the CIA's rendition program.
David Ignatius ponders wheth...
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* United States v. Mubayyid and Muntasser (1st Cir. Sep.
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For those who are in the process of picking casebooks for a national security law or law-and-terrorism course next spring, you’ll want to take a look at the following two:
“National Security Law” (5th e...
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(by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney & Jack Goldsmith)
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No, that's not an Onion headline--nor is today April 1. Nor is it entirely true.
Still, the New York Times has obtained a copy of the "Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 20...
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I'm in the process of collecting and posting reviews of and commentary on Vice President Dick Cheney's book that will be of interest to Lawfare readers.
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On August 30, the Eleventh Circuit decisively dismissed a classic lawfare lawsuit -- an Alien Tort Statute suit brought against the former President and former Defense Minister of Bolivia (Gonzalo Sanche...
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That's what somebody in the government is saying today, on reading this Washington Post story about a contract dispute between two aviation companies involved in CIA renditions--a dispute that seems to i...
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The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on a website that posts rankings of hackers. The concept is that hackers earn points based on level of difficulty of the hack, as well as the ...
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The new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger, challenged the Bush administration's assertion that invading Iraq would reduce world-wide terror, Nancy Scola at the Atlantic writes.
Amn...
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Business Insider
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And we're back.
Ibrahim al-Rubeish, a senior member of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, who is also a former Guantanamo detainee has recommended to UAE interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to ...
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Published by Doubleday (2011)
Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
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If you apply for this job, you probably should refrain from mentioning that you read about it on Lawfare:
Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program
Location: Washington, DC
Department: Liberty and...
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In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe...
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Over at the Council on Foreign Relations web site, Matthew Waxman offers a brief essay on lessons learned on detention policy from the last ten years:
An important lesson since the 9/11 attacks is that d...
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Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here.
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Another Mark Mazzetti story from the past week that deserves your attention: this piece, which sheds some additional light on the intelligence and logistical support that the United States is providing t...
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Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove...
